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Re: Time Zones

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Post by aliya_bhatia »

wging wrote: post #9

Well, almost. Could do with a city lookup that highlights the timezone bar that corresponds to your chosen city and labels it with that city. I think that's the missing step in usability.

Agree. My first thought looking at this website was, "This is awesome! Now how do I add the cities/countries I'm usually calling?" I tried to find a way but it doesn't look like that's supported yet. I'm probably pretty representative of most other people's knowledge of what cities are in which time zones, so it would be a good feature to add to filter by specific city.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by Fargren »

This doesn't solve my main gripe with most time converters. I normally don't want the time in Vienna, I want the time at UST-6. My common use case is that I find out an event will start streaming at, say, 10 PM UST-6 and all I know is my clock is EST-3. If I don't know what country uses UST-6, this converter is next to useless for me. My problem is with multiple standards, not with visualization.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by joshmlewis »

tomelders wrote: post #19

Am I going out of my mind, or is this not a year old already? I'm sure there was an article on the front page where they talked about the build and stuff like local storage on iPad. (it started life as an iPad web app). I'm aware that "dupes" are bound to occur, but this was big news last time around and I'm surprised no one remembers it.

Yes I remember seeing this on the internets in October, so it could have been even before that.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by tallanvor »

It seems really finicky, at least on Firefox (it keeps jumping back to the current time). You also can't add or remove cities/time zones, so overall it seems pretty useless.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by bjcubsfan »

nwilkens wrote: post #5

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ is another visually appealing option.

I also like world time buddy more than this one. It allows you to customize which time zones you see. As mentioned, it is great for scheduling future meetings. It is also helpful for not having to worry about daylight savings time differences between countries/states. It is also nice that it lets you export to many formats (clipboard, Google calendar, etc).

Re: Time Zones

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Post by monsterix »

joshmlewis wrote: post #24
tomelders wrote: post #19

Am I going out of my mind, or is this not a year old already? I'm sure there was an article on the front page where they talked about the build and stuff like local storage on iPad. (it started life as an iPad web app). I'm aware that "dupes" are bound to occur, but this was big news last time around and I'm surprised no one remembers it.

Yes I remember seeing this on the internets in October, so it could have been even before that.

Absolutely. I remember adding this to my home screen at least 6 months back, with a 'green-blue clock' apple touch icon on my iPad.

It's lightweight, suggesting minimum use of drop-shadows and css3 effects but that's pretty much about it. From usability perspective, I still find standard 2 arm analog clock designs more useful.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by rplnt »

Well, it's nice but...

It shows completely random cities I don't care about. As a bonus it doesn't mention what timezone they are in. Also, I'm pretty sure my locale doesn't use 12h format.

Re: Time Zones

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Post by eschutte2 »

tomelders wrote: post #19

Am I going out of my mind, or is this not a year old already? I'm sure there was an article on the front page where they talked about the build and stuff like local storage on iPad. (it started life as an iPad web app). I'm aware that "dupes" are bound to occur, but this was big news last time around and I'm surprised no one remembers it.

Article from April 2010: http://ajaxian.com/archives/every-time-zone-why-the-web-rock...
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